Law Status

You can also use three special law statuses. Please use these only when applicable:

Ambiguous: If the status of a law is debated or contested.

Not applicable: If the law does not apply to the country (for example, "LGBT people serving in the military" in a country that does not have a military program would be labeled as "Not applicable".)

Varies by region: If there are no laws defined at a national level, using this status will indicate that laws are defined by each of the country's states or provinces. Equaldex will display all state and province laws available for this issue.

Sources

Currently, you can only mark a law as "not applicable" for a set date range. If you'd like to mark the entire law as inapplicable for a country, please contact a moderator and they can easily do this for you.

Unknown dates should only be used in rare cases when that data is unavailable.

If you absolutely can't find a specific date of when a specific law went into effect or ended, you can set the day or month as "unknown."

In these cases, the date will be displayed as "March 1994" or just "1994" respectively.

Note that some functions of Equaldex require an complete date, so these dates will be treated as day one of the month or the year (for example, "March 1994" will be treated as "March 1, 1994" and "1994" will be "January 1, 1994").

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General

Equaldex is a collaborative knowledge base for the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) movement. Equaldex's goal is to become a platform to collect, display, and analyze, data about the LGBT laws, facts, polls, and opinions. Equaldex's data, which is in a structured and consistent format, is contributed and verified by its users.

Using this data, we'll be able to show which countries are progressing, which need the most help, how countries compare to each other, how the LGBT movement has progressed over the years, and display compelling stats and visualizations about the LGBT movement. My hope is that Equaldex will become the go-to resource for data about the LGBT movement.

Laws are just the start. More features will be coming that will give more insight into the LGBT movement, including how LGBT people feel, how the population feels about LGBT issues, who (specifically) is helping move us forward, and who is holding us back.

Equaldex and its editors add organization and companies that are relevant to the LGBT community. Organizations may be listed on region pages to provide assistance to LGBT people who are interested in supporting the LGBT community in a given country.